• DOI:10.1080/03086534.2017.1355524
Corpus ID: 158364360

Spectres of Pan-Islam: Methodological Nationalism and British Imperial Policy after the First World War

@article{Mathew2017SpectresOP,
  title={Spectres of Pan-Islam: Methodological Nationalism and British Imperial Policy after the First World War},
  author={J. Mathew},
  journal={The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History},
  year={2017},
  volume={45},
  pages={942 - 968}
}

• J. Mathew
• Published 2017
• History
• The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the First World War, British officials were forced to contend with a threat that seemed to undermine their empire from India to Egypt. The anti-colonial revolts that spread across the world in this moment were caused by many factors from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to far more local concerns. However, many British officials imagined these contemporaneous revolts to be caused by a pan-Islamic conspiracy. The threat of pan-Islam was inflated in the minds of… Expand

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